Condensation
This is caused when damp air touches a cold surface. The damp air is often caused by cooking, or by drying clothes indoors. Condensation often causes black mould, which can affect walls, ceilings and window frames as well as your clothes, bedding and decorations.
To have less condensation:
- In cold weather try to keep low background heating on all day, even when there is no one at home
- Try to make sure there is ventilation in each room. Open windows or vents
- Close the door into the kitchen when you are cooking, and put lids on saucepans
- Do not to use paraffin or liquid gas heaters
- Dry damp clothes outside. Put your tumble drier vent out of the window
- When running a bath, run the cold water before the hot. After having a bath, open the window and shut the bathroom door
- Do wipe mould off of surfaces as it appears, use an anti-mould cleaner to help to stop the problem getting worse